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Timo Heppner

Senior Associate
About

Timo Heppner advises national and international companies on cross-border M&A transactions as well as joint ventures, venture capital investments, carve-outs and private equity transactions and on all matters of corporate law. He has extensive experience in advising international companies, particularly from Asia and the Middle East, on investments and business activities in Germany, especially in the real estate, industrial, energy and technology sectors.

Timo also specializes in advising German companies on investments and joint ventures abroad.

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising one of Germany’s leading car manufacturers on a cooperation with a state-owned Saudi Arabian development company regarding the development and operation of a motorsport experience center in Saudi Arabia.*
  • Advising a German publicly-listed digital company on the acquisition of German stock company operating an online platform for real estate project.*
  • Advising an investor on the acquisition of a 7,400 sqm historical landmark building used for student and co-living apartments in one of Germany’s top five major cities.*
  • Representation of a state-owned renewable energy company in the Emirates in the establishment of a joint venture with a Spanish listed multinational power utility to develop and operate a 476 MW offshore wind farm located in the German Baltic Sea valued at approximately EUR1.6bn.*
  • Representation a leading global manufacturer and supplier of LED driver products on the acquisition of a business division of a semiconductor manufacturer in Europe and Asia.*
  • Advising a German real estate development ground on the acquisition of a German real estate investment and asset management group managing a real estate portfolio of more than EUR one billion asset value.*
  • Advising a European leading aircraft manufacturer on the acquisition of a Germany-based helicopter manufacturing company.*
  • Advising a global private equity firm on the EUR 1 billion acquisition of a real estate portfolio in Germany.*
  • Advising a global leading investment firm on the acquisition of a German operator of fibre-optic networks.*
  • Advising a German major government agency on the procurement of construction contracts for the construction of a new headquarter building in Berlin.*

*The above experience list includes matters on which Timo Heppner worked in his previous firms.

Languages
  • English
  • German
Education
  • Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, Second State Examination, 2018
  • Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf, First State Examination, 2016

Publications

  • "Claim for consent arising from a priority notice does not become time-barred" (Der Zustimmungsanspruch aus einer Vormerkung verjährt nicht), Immobilien Zeitung (IZ), 9 June 2022

Prior Experience

  • Before joining DLA Piper, Timo worked for a renowned international US commercial law firm in Dusseldorf and a renowned British international commercial law firm in Frankfurt. During his legal clerkship, Timo worked in the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia and for other international commercial law firms.

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